Comment 19 for bug 442941

dude, i don't know how you got that far, but good work, really.

On 7/7/11, Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote:
> I've finally found a reliable method that I can use to reproduce this
> bug in isolation (so I might at long last be able to do something about
> it!):
>
> 1) Install a Natty desktop system (and checkpoint the virtual machine at
> this point)
> 2) Start update-manager
> 3) Uncheck everything except libpam0g and tzdata
> 4) Run the upgrade
>
> I'm going over a system call trace with a fine-toothed comb now. I'm
> pretty sure it's not the fault of any of the packages being installed.
> It looks as though there may be something wrong with aptdaemon's debconf
> proxy (the other end of the socket doesn't seem to be connected to
> anything), but it could also be a bug in how update-manager is talking
> to aptdaemon.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442941
>
> Title:
> debconf failed to upgrade from 1.5.27ubuntu1 to 1.5.27ubuntu2: exit
> status 128 - Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66
>
> Status in “debconf” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: debconf
>
> Failed to report to debconf during first upgrade after installation of
> 9.10 beta. Upgrade failed.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Oct 5 09:54:06 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 128
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
> SourcePackage: debconf
> Title: package debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
> installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
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